Hey Ranchers!
I passed SCWCD exam today with 86%. Thank you for your input and interesting postings!
I prepared with HFSJ and Bridgewater. Although HFSJ is a very nice book, it was important to me to have a resource with 100% coverage (-> Bridgewater).
Preparation took me about 2 months with more or less 5 hours of preparation per week�
I read first HFSJ (I was a novice in web component topics) then went through Bridgewater. I read both books two times.
Thanks a lot to Frederic Esnault for his excellent notes about HFSJ and especially for his �SWCD API� and �Study Summary of
Servlet Specification 2.4� Documents (I�ve never read the original spec
). It�s a must to read it before taking the exam!
The final exam was much easier than I thought and took me only about 55 minutes! I scored in the HFSJ �only� 55%; so for me it�s +31%�
My advice: If you are reaching 70-80% in the (online) mock exams, you are ready to take it!
Regards,
Remo